Services You Can Safetly Disable in XP

A Windows service starts when Windows is booted and runs in the background as long as you are working on your PC.There are many services that run when you start your PC. With my experience with Windows and it’s tools, I have found out some of the services that can be disabled and your PC would still run fine.

First of all, you have to know the place from where you can view, enable/disable the services. Go to Start > Run and type msconfig. Now click on the Services tab. That’s it. You could now see a number of services.

Below is a list of services that can be disabled. Just see the service name from here and scroll down in the Services window, un-check the service and done!

Remember: If you use any of the following services, then don’t disable that one. It would cause your application (or whatever it is) to stop working.
Disable the following services:

Alerter

Application Management

Clipbook

Fast UserSwitching

Indexing Service

Messenger

Net Logon

NetMeeting

QOS RSVP

Remote Desktop Help Session Manager

Remote Registry

Routing & Remote Access

SSDP Discovery Service

Universal Plug and Play Device Host

Web Client

Some service names may vary. I’m again telling you, do it at your own risk. If at anytime after disabling them, you find that your applications are not behaving as they should be, then enable them back. And make sure you always make a backup of your Windows settings before trying these tweaks and tricks.

A normal user doesnt know that what all services are being used, and a technical person would already know it, just to add that please let them know that which services are for what pourpose in brief.
Otherwise this is a post which can be useful at times. Stumbled!